At the training ground next to the hilltop hostel on Inuya Mountain, Tozuki District, the match between the Aoba Dodai High School Baseball Club and the Tozuki Shirasugi High School Baseball Club has reached the fifth game of the halftime, and the score is still 0:0, and both sides have failed to score points on each other. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

This also puts the game into a situation where pitchers and pitchers are head-to-head and decide who will win the game.

The game is about to start again, and before the players come on the field, the coach of Aoba Dodai High School, Kawano, is more and more uneasy, and he is thinking: No, Shirasugi High School's playing line has always been known for strong blows, even if it is his first-year freshman, if it is not of a certain level, it stands to reason that Takahashi-kun will not recruit him...... In that case, how will they attack next!?

On the other side, in the rest area of Baishan High School, coach Takahashi asked the dogs of their first-year freshman team with a confident and calm smile: "4 rounds have passed, 0:0, are you releasing water to your former friends!?" “

"You think it's possible, Coach." Inuya replied with a sneer.

"But you haven't scored yet!"

Dogtooth pulled out a metal bat and waved it, replying, "That's because I want to give him a big gift." “

Takahashi understood what his disciple meant, and smiled: "Oh, he~ Then I'll wait here for the opening of your show!" “

Inuya didn't say anything more, but waved his arm and went on the field with the bat.

The first half of the game is still from Aoba main defense, Shirasugi main attack, Shirasugi's hitter has been their turn to play the 8th stick on the line at this time, that is to say, after playing the 8th batter and the next 9th bat, Shirasugi's third batter will be the turn of the pitcher of the Aoba Dotai High School Baseball Club, Hisashi Watanabe's former friend, Inuya Akihisa to hit again.

So feeling this, Watanabe and Tsuchihara, the shooting partners on Aoba's side, under the instruction of coach Kawano, adopted a defensive style of controlling the ball path for the hitter to strike, and then receiving the outing to deal with the strong attack of the line in the center of Shirasugi High School.

The first two hitters, Watanabe both threw very easily to solve the battle, both of them first hit a ball in the inside corner to open the way, and directly hit a change ball to let the two hitters hit a high flying ball and were caught out.

This kind of efficient guarding is the highest level of guarding that can be done in the first-year team of Aoba Dodai High School at the moment, and it is also the last trump card that Watanabe hides as the ace pitcher of the first-year freshman team.

"In the first half of the fifth inning, the first batter of Shirasugi High School played Inuya Akihisa on behalf of him."

At this time, the name of the last hitter from Shirasugi High School was broadcast on the radio screen in the radio room, and the referee on the court immediately beckoned Inuya to stand in the strike zone to prepare for the game.

Hearing that Inuya was going to play, all the 9 people on Aoba's side immediately felt a sense of tension hit him.

Everyone's eyes were on Inuya, and at this time, Inuya made a choice that surprised everyone on Aoba's side, and he chose to play on the other side that was different from the right strike zone at the beginning to complete the swing of the bat, and the left strike zone to play!

And this change suddenly caught the Aoba Dodai High School side off guard, especially the pitcher Watanabe and the catcher Tsuchihara on the field were even more surprised to look at Inuya for a while before coming back to their senses and preparing for the game.

At this time, Tsuchihara took advantage of the brief moment before he was ready to start the game, and exchanged sign language to Watanabe: "What should I do!?" Looks like your buddy is about to explode! “

Because of the relationship of trust between shooting and catching, when the offense and defense were switched in the middle of the first game after the start of the game, Tsuchihara learned something about the relationship between Inuya and Watanabe from Watanabe's mouth.

At the same time, Tsuchihara also learns what kind of baseball player Inuya was in the past.

This is a very important part of baseball for the analysis of opponents' intelligence data. Whether it's as a line-playing player or as an ace pitcher on a baseball team...... Only by finding out more information about the opponent can the team at both ends of the pitch come up with a tactical way to deal with it.

Sometimes, it is not impossible that an accurate opponent intelligence can increase the success rate of a team's shooting and offense by 30% on both ends of the pitch!

30%, not to mention how the pitcher uses this 30% opportunity to press the opponent's line into what kind of what, just in terms of the identity of the hitter, a detailed information of the opponent's pitcher may make the 9 hitters on his side in the game from less than 20%, and the pitiful hitting rate can suddenly increase to 50% or even more.

This shows the importance of intelligence in baseball!

At this time, Watanabe, who was standing on the pitcher's mound, thought about it, then touched his chest, loosened the clothes on his shoulders, and finally threw the ball with his right hand and shook vertically, as if a person was inadvertently making a natural relaxation action when facing tension.

But in the eyes of the catcher Tsuchihara, these actions are very interesting, Watanabe means: Ignore him first, I am very troublesome to hit the right throw on the left, the opening and suppression of the fastball ball road can't, you can only use the slide ball to assist the finger fork ball, and finally use the change ball to win or lose!

After receiving it, Tsuchihara immediately thought of a match ball to play the code: Then, use a slider for the first ball, the ball is in the middle, hit the inside corner, and be careful not to shoot too well!

"Understood" Watanabe nodded in confirmation and began to step on the board and pitch.

On the other hand, Inuya, who stood in the left strike zone, didn't know Watanabe and Tsuchihara's plans, but even if he knew, he probably wouldn't care too much, because Inuya was very confident in the baseball skills he had cultivated in the past four years.

So he didn't care about the change, and he stood in the strike zone and waited for Watanabe's baseball to fly.

Kuchi Watanabe began to raise his feet high in the air with a boom-arm pitching movement, then strode out and stomped heavily to the ground, twisting violently before his right arm began to swing out towards home plate.

But at this time, Watanabe, who was about to throw the ball more than halfway through his arm, saw that the dog tooth standing in the strike zone was completely motionless for the ball he was about to throw.

Watanabe, who has a lot of experience as a pitcher, immediately reacted to a possibility in his mind: not good, the inuya's striking posture is so stable, if this ball is thrown, it will definitely be hit by him......

Thinking of this, Watanabe made a dangerous and extreme move, he twisted his arm hard before he was about to throw the ball, and threw the baseball in his hand half a finger lower than he expected.

"Whew~~"

Inuya didn't expect the ball to change at the last minute, so as soon as Watanabe threw the ball, he swung his bat according to his pre-conceived line of strike.

"Great! ~”

"Nani!? ~~~ How can it be a rolling earth!? ”

As soon as the stick hit the ball Dogtooth, he immediately reacted, and this ball was stronger than the speed ball he expected Watanabe to throw, so unexpectedly, the Dogtooth hit was suppressed by Watanabe's ball, forming an infield rolling ball.

As soon as he saw this, Inuya didn't even have time to complain, so he immediately threw the stick and ran quickly.

According to the situation at this time, the ball was hit in the direction between the pitcher's mound and third base and rolled away, and the ball speed was not fast, so Watanabe, who was standing on the pitcher's mound, could easily step forward to catch the ball and pass it to first base to form a block.

But at this time, Watanabe strangely knelt on the pitcher's mound and did not move with the incoming ball for the first time.

After waiting for the dogtooth to reach the safety of the first base, the people of Aoba began to react to the accident and surrounded the pitcher's mound.

"Watanabe-kun~~"

"Nani!? ~~ Watanabe-kun is injured!? ”

"What's the matter!? How did Watanabe-kun get hurt!? ”

Catcher Tsuchihara was the one who reacted the fastest, and he immediately went up to the pitcher Mound Watanabe, squatted down and asked with concern, "Watanabe-kun, how are you!?" ”

Watanabe's whole face was twisted together at this time, his brows were deeply furrowed, cold sweat kept coming out of his face and dripping out, and he didn't even have the strength to reply, obviously this was a rhythm that hurt a lot!

When the others also came around, the team doctor from Aoba Dodai High School also discovered the situation, and quickly picked up the medical kit and walked to the field, and the people who surrounded him came to Watanabe's side and immediately observed that Watanabe's injuries were there.

Soon, the team doctor found Watanabe's left hand holding his right arm, so he immediately judged that Watanabe's right hand was injured, so he hurriedly shouted to everyone: "Quick, help Watanabe-kun get up first, be careful of his right hand, let's go back to the rest area to do examination and treatment, !! ”

Since Watanabe's appearance looked painful, everyone at Aoba Dodai High School immediately hurriedly helped Watanabe up and sent him back to the bench in the rest area for the team doctor to do a detailed examination for him.

As for the competition...... At this time, it was suspended due to Watanabe's accidental injury.